Duke University

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle
  10-25-18
  

  The Duke history department wants to rename the Carr Building for him

  So who was Raymond Gavins?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-27-18
  

  Duke history professors ask to rename their building

  It honors the white supremacist who dedicated UNC’s Silent Sam statue.

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• SOURCE: Duke Today
  4-2-18
  

  Duke University holds symposium on slavery

  Panelists considered what monuments do and don’t say about our nation’s troubled racial history.

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  11-24-17
  

  Highway in Durham named for John Hope Franklin

  Franklin retired to Durham in 1980. Two years later, he became the James B. Duke Professor of History, Duke University’s highest professorship.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5-4-15
  

  Duke will allow student who hung a noose on a tree to return

  The international student says in an apology he had no idea of the cultural significance of the noose.

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• SOURCE: The Durham News
  1-26-15
  

  Duke honors historian John Hope Franklin with year-long series of events

  Duke University will hold events during the next year paying tribute to preeminent historian John Hope Franklin, who would have turned 100 years old this January.

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• SOURCE: Curbed
  1-16-15
  

  Meet the Black Architect Who Designed Duke University 37 Years Before He Could Have Attended It

  by Rachel B. Doyle

  In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school's first-ever black graduate.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  6-19-14
  

  Duke Changes Dorm Name Honoring White Supremacist

  Students at Duke had pushed in recent months to change the name of Aycock Hall, a freshman residence that had been named in 1914 for the former North Carolina governor Charles B. Aycock, who pushed for both expanded public education and for segregation.

• SOURCE: Herald-Sun
  8-19-13
  

  Duke military historian I.B. Holley dies at 94

  Longtime history professor I.B. Holley, who spent more than six decades on the Duke campus, died last week.  He was 94.One of the nation's leading military historians, Holley remained active in the classroom and in research even following his retirement in 1989. He still frequented Duke University Libraries and, until recently, still taught in the freshman seminar program, according to department chair John Martin. In 2008, at age 89, he published "The Highway Revolution, 1895-1925: How the United States Got Out of the Mud."...

• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  5-8-13
  

  William Chafe, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall arrested at NC statehouse protest

  William Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, emeritus, at Duke University and the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill.This week, we were arrested at the General Assembly. We chose the path of civil disobedience – along with 29 others – as a means of calling attention to the headlong assault on our state’s history by the governor and the state legislature.We are not radicals. Each of us has been president of the Organization of American Historians, the leading professional organization of all American historians. We cherish the history we have spent our lives studying. Yet now we see a new generation in Raleigh threatening to destroy the very history we have spent our lives celebrating....